“The Dancing Girl,” was a work in progress in 1915, described as "joy incarnate ...expressed in the lilt of the figure, with its upraised arms, which will hold a bunch of grapes, from which," the sculptor says, “she will try to catch the juice in her mouth.”
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REFERENCE
“Carves Vision of Boyhood as Ragged Newsie,” Cleveland Leader (?), found in Cleveland Institute of Art Scrapbook, circa 1915.